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Patrouille de choc (1957)

Patrouille de choc poster
Directed by
Claude Bernard-Aubert
Genre
war film
Country
France
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
U
Rating
5.3 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A French patrol is trapped and fighting for survival during the First Indochina War. The film follows soldiers facing harsh conditions and mounting hopelessness in the jungle.

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What happens

Shock Patrol (French: Patrouille de choc, Vietnamese: Hai cô gái Việt) is a 1957 French war film set during the First Indochina War that was written and directed by Claude Ogrel under the name Claude Bernard-Aubert Ogrel was a war correspondent in French Indochina from 1949 to 1954 and this was his film debut. The film was the first French film about the First Indochina War. The original title Patrol Without Hope (Patrouille sans espoir) was changed along with the original pessimistic ending. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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